How do I get the background color code of an element?
console.log($(".div").css("background-color"));<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script> <div class="div" style="background-color: #f5b405"></div>What I want
#f5b405 Check example link below and click on the div to get the color value in hex.
var color = ''; $('div').click(function() { var x = $(this).css('backgroundColor'); hexc(x); console.log(color); }) function hexc(colorval) { var parts = colorval.match(/^rgb\((\d+),\s*(\d+),\s*(\d+)\)$/); delete(parts[0]); for (var i = 1; i <= 3; ++i) { parts[i] = parseInt(parts[i]).toString(16); if (parts[i].length == 1) parts[i] = '0' + parts[i]; } color = '#' + parts.join(''); }<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script> <div class='div' style='background-color: #f5b405'>Click me!</div>Check working example at http://jsfiddle.net/DCaQb/
$(this).css('backgroundColor') returns rgba(n, n, n, n).
There's a bit of a hack for this, since the HTML5 canvas is required to parse color values when certain properties like strokeStyle and fillStyle are set:
var ctx = document.createElement('canvas').getContext('2d'); ctx.strokeStyle = 'rgb(64, 128, 192)'; var hexColor = ctx.strokeStyle; 
function getBackgroundColor($dom) { var bgColor = ""; while ($dom[0].tagName.toLowerCase() != "html") { bgColor = $dom.css("background-color"); if (bgColor != "rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)" && bgColor != "transparent") { break; } $dom = $dom.parent(); } return bgColor; } working properly under Chrome and Firefox
You have the color you just need to convert it into the format you want.
Here's a script that should do the trick: http://www.phpied.com/rgb-color-parser-in-javascript/
In fact, if there is no definition of background-color under some element, Chrome will output its background-color as rgba(0, 0, 0, 0), while Firefox outputs is transparent.
My beautiful non-standard solution
HTML
<div style="background-color:#f5b405"></div> jQuery
$(this).attr("style").replace("background-color:", ""); Result
#f5b405 Adding on @Newred solution. If your style has more than just the background-color you can use this:
$(this).attr('style').split(';').filter(item => item.startsWith('background-color'))[0].split(":")[1] 
This Solution utilizes part of what @Newred and @Radu Diță said. But will work in less standard cases.
$(this).attr('style').split(';').filter(item => item.startsWith('background-color'))[0].split(":")[1].replace(/\s/g, ''); The issue both of them have is that neither check for a space between background-color: and the color.
All of these will match with the above code.
background-color: #ffffff background-color: #fffff; background-color:#fffff; 
$(this).animate({ backgroundColor: '#f5b405' }, 'fast');